Dancing Stick Figure Fun
This you’ve got to try.
Boing Boing helped me and my young un pass a little time on a chilly day with this great find.
Pictaps is a web-toy that invites you to draw a stick-figure and then creates a delightful, gigantic animation of your figure, multiplied into a cast of thousands, doing a joyful, Busby Berkeley show-number, with dancing and cavorting and so forth.
Here’s one of our creations.
It’s things like this - free, fast and wonderful - that make me question the existence of the terrible programs for kids that schools and parents pay for. Would it really be so hard to develop a graphically interesting, fast, dynamic and educational game?
Jeez, Pam, where do you find this stuff? Mind you, I haven’t thought of an educational use for it yet, and I have to admit that I let my thirteen year old figure it out for me. But we had a blast with it at home last night (it think it is too challenging for my Window ‘98 at work.) I actually thought it was sort of faintly creepy (I think it’s the music) but entirely fascinating.
And you’re right — lots of room for creativity despite the strict format. Like writing a sonnet!
01 Feb 2007 at 2:46 pm